Gender, sexuality, and meaning : linguistic practice and politics
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Studies in language and gender
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Gender, sexuality, and meaning: An overview
- Part I. Politics and scholarship: 2. Language and gender
- 3. Feminism in linguistics
- 4. Difference and language: A linguist's perspective
- Part II. Social practice, social meanings, and selves: 5. Communities of practice: Where language, gender, and power all live
- 6. Intonation in a man's world
- 7. Constructing meaning, constructing selves: Snapshots of language, gender, and class from Belten High
- Part III. Constructing content in discourse: 8. The sexual (re)production of meaning: A discourse-based theory
- 9. Prototypes, pronouns, and persons
- 10. What's in a name?: Social labeling and gender practices
- 11. Queering semantics: Definitional struggles
- Coda: 12. Breaking through the 'glass ceiling': Can linguistic awareness help?